@garya505 - I just played with this calculator:
https://www.aarp.org/money/taxes/1040_tax_calculator.html
is that what you used?
it is incorrect as it provide the child tax credit if there is NO earned income.
if you are stating that you do not have any earned income, there is no calculator required in your circumstance,. There is no child tax credit available to you.
Calculating CTC is tricky.... I'd trust the AARP website otherwise.
I emailed them to highlight the bug (I volunteer for their tax-aide program).
Edit: I just looked at the Dinkytown calculator - it looks very much like the AARP calculator and I wonder if AARP isn't licensing it from Dinkytown; I am going to contact dinkytown as well.
